pompous > define

adjective

• Puffed up with vanity."a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey- Newsweek
  • synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous
• Characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display.
  • synonyms: ceremonious

• (a.) Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
• (a.) Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.